The Sun. — London, England, 1836-06-09 00:00:00

PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS. The e i g h t h concert too k place on Monday evening at the bver square Rooms, the programme of which will be found The symphonies were the great features of the evening, and With the exception of the trio in Beethoven's, were admirably Ratfermed. Mozart's, ever fresh and ever new, was one of tt T very richest treasures which that inimitable band can un fold; ; its beauties appeared like an Oasis in the desert of trash by which it was followed, due exception being made for the Leonora of 13erthoven. With this performance the Philhar monic season concluded. We will now take a retrospect of the whole concerts, and thereby submit thereb y suumit the Direction of the Philharmonic Soc iet y to important test—how far have they fulfilled the very re sponsible trust reposed in them ?—how much has the science of Music been advanced ? how far has the public taste been 'mProved?—has every opportunity been afforded the sub leribers of becoming acquainted with the choicest musical '.oropositions, through the medium of the Philharmonic Concerts ? Any thing short of an affirmative to these propositions, is Pro tank, a failure of the great objects of the Institution ; to accomplish which an unparalleled combination of musical ,t alent of the very highest order assembles , a nd for the dis p la y et which an unparalleled amount of subscriptions are con tributed. It will very much facilitate the inquiry, and bring the mat ter /pore permanently before the public, to commence by giv ing th e programmes of the respective concerts of the se ason, be - cause by having under the eye, at one view, the whole instru mental and vocal selection of the season, an important part of the inquiry can be more readily determined. Have the inex haustible :tunes of musical excellence at the command of the Directors d :he Philharmonic Concerts been judiciously made made use of. or .ve they even in the selection of the music it self t o be weiglie,4 in the balance and found vvanting ?" FIRST CONrERT, Monday, Feb. 22, 1836. Sinfonia—No. i ...... ................... Beethoven. Seena_Mrs. H. R. Bishop, " Di Prima vera" Concerto (E flat) pianoforte—Kr. Mos clicks .. Duetto—Mrs. Seguin and Mrs. H. IL Bishop, " All Jacciamo " (Jessonda) Spohr. Overture—"Merestille" (first perform- F. Mendelshon ance) Bartholdy. ACT SECOND. Sinfonia—No. 9. Haydn. Ari a _-Mrs. Alfred Shaw, " 0 Salutaris Hos tia" Cherubini. Quartet to—two violins, viola, and violon cello, Messrs. Mori, Watts, Moralt, and Lindley Haydn. Quartetto—Mrs. H. R. Bishop, Mrs. Se guin, Mrs. A. Shaw, and Mr. Horn. castle, " Andro Ramingo," (Idomoneo)Mozart. Overture—" Euryanthe" C. M. Von Weber. SECOND CONCERT, Monday, March 7,1836. Sir,fonia in 6 Mozart. tinetto—Madame Caradori and Mr. Balfe, " Vieni i for tormenti," (Euryanthe) C. M. Von Weber. Concerto in G, pianoforte —Mrs. Anderson Beethoven. Balfe, " Fermo rimanti," (Guglielmo Te 11)...... ............ ••... Rossini. Overture—Gberon e C. M. Von Weber. ACT SECOND. Sinfonia, C minor Aria—Madame Caradori, Non (Don Giovanni) Mozart. Concerto, Clarinet—Mr. Willman C. M. Von Weber. Teezetto—Madame Caradori, Mr. Brizzi, ;Lid Mr. Balfe, " Che far Degg'io" (Robert le Diable) Meyerbeer. Overtu.-e—" Tamerlane" Winter. T 1:1RD CONCERT, Monday, March 21, 1836. Sinfonia in D Potter. Aria—Signor Cartagenova, " Io l'Amai," (I Normanni . a Parigi) Mereadante, Concert Stuck, Pianoforte Madame Duleken... • C. M. Von Weber. Aria--Madame Colleo ni Corti, " Casts Diva," ( Norma) ..... Bellini. Overture—" Der Behernscher der Geis- C. M. Von Weber. ter." ACT SECOND. Sinfoni a in B flat Beethoven. Aria—Signor Winter, 2 ‘ Che Vidi," ( Zel- Rossini. mira) Coocertino, Violin—Mr. Blagrove .Spohr. buetig—Madame Colleoni Corti and Sig nor C•iartagenova, " Anna to Piangi," (Maom etto Secondo) Rossini. Overture—" Die Zauberflotte" . .•..Mozart. FOURTH CONCERT, Monday, April 11, 1836. Sinfonia No. le, composed for this Society, Spohr. Scena—Mr. Balle t " Pace Ardenti,"(Eu- C. M. Von. Weber. ryanthe) Concerto, Pianoforte, 1•1 C minor—Mr. C. Mozart. Potter Scena—Madame Caradori, Ah Ritorna.' , SF. Mendleshon Bartholdy. Overture—Egmont ........... •••• • Beethoven. ACT SECOND. Sinfonia No. 1. ............ Haydn. Song_Mrs. A. Shaw, " Make haste to de liver me ;" Clarono obligato, Mr. Will xnan „, Neukomm. 4, i0--Two violoncellos and contra basso, Mr. Lindley, Mr. Lucas, and Signor Dragonnetti Correlli. Aria—Madame Caradori , " Batti Batti," ( Don Giovanni ;) Violoncello obligato, Mr. Lindley Mozart. Overture—" Le Prince de Hombourg" Marschner. FIFTH CONCERT, Monday, April 23, 1836. fonia in E flat, (first time of perform anie) ••• Lachner. Birch, " Ave Maria" ......... Cherubini. Co ncer t o . —pianoforte ( M. S.) in C minor, Mr. W. S. Bennett W. S. Bennett. Scena—Mr. J. Bennett, " Ah Sorrida, amico" (Jess,inda) Spohr. Cherubini. Overture—Fanis,ka ACT SECOND. Sinfonia in D Mozart. Seena—.Mrs. H. R. " Ah Per fido" Beethoven. Military Concerto—violin, Mcns. Lipinski Lipinski. Terzetto—Mrs. H. R. Bishop. Miss Birch, and Mr. J. Bennett, " Quay canna al suol" (Jessonda) Von Weber. Overture—Preeiosa M. SIXTH CONCERT, Monday, May 9, 1836. Sinfonia—Pastorale ...................... —Beethoven. Aria—M. Iyanhoff, " 0 Cara immagine" ( Die Zauberflotte) ....Mozart. „, Grand Fantasia—M. Thalberg , first pia • nist to the Emperor of Austria Thalberg. buetto—M. lyanoff and Mr. Phillips, " Ove vai" ( Guillaume Tell) . ...Rossini. Overture—" Pietro von Abano" Spohr. ACT SECOND. Sinfonia—No. 11 Haydn. Aria— Madame Malibran. " Non piu di fiuri," Cornetto di Bassetto obligato, Mr. Willman ( La Clcmenza di Tito) Mozart. Quartetto—two violins, viola, and violon cello, Messrs. Mori, Watts, Moralt, and Lindley Haydn. Scena—Mr. Phillips, " Ah the invau " (Pietro von Abano) Spohr. Overture—" Der Freischutz" SEVENTH CONCERT, Monday, May 23,1836. Sinfonia—Eroica. Beethoven. Aria—Mr. Machin, " Mentre ti Lascio".. Mozart. Septetto—Flute, Obeo, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet , an d Double Bass, The Chevalier Messrs. Nicholson , G. Cooke, Willman, Neukomm. Denman, Platt, Harper, and Dragonetti Recitativo ed aria—Miss Masson—Per Pieta ......................................... Mczart. Overture—" Jessonda " ...................... Spar. ACT SECOND. Sinfonia in D .................................... Mozart. Aria—Madame Malibran, Quando it Persiani. core " .......................................... Quartetto—Two violins, tenor, and violon cello ; Messrs. Blagrove, Gattie, Dando, and Lucas .................................... Beethoven . Terzetto—Madame Malibran, Miss Mas_ • son, and Mr. Machin, Corraggio, Orsu, ..Beethoven. Fidelio ............................. •••• ..... Overture—" Anacreon "• ..................... Cherubini. EIGHTH CONCERT, Monday, June 6, 1836. Sinfonia in F (No. 8) ...... . ........ . ..... Beet hoven. Ivanoff " Che acc.enti" (Otello)Rossini. Second c aprice—Pianoforte, M. Thalberg, First pianist the Emperor of Austria....Thal ber g . Recitativo ed aria—Miss Clara Novello, " Mesta 0 care' , Moz Ovettuye—" Les deux Journ6es" Cherubini. ACT SECOND. —Mozart. B inConia in E flat Cantata_Madame Malibran, " The depar ture from Paradise," composed expressly fo r the Philharmonic Society, and first time of performance ...... H. R. Bishop. Introduzione e pollacca Guerreira—Violin, M. Ole B. Bull Ole B. Bull. buetto—Madame Malibran and M. Ivan " In mia mau" (Norma) ‘-ivertore—" Leonora" Beethoven. The natural division which presents itself is two-fold; into both of which it is our purpose to take a short examination. As the instrumental portion is by far the most important, be cause of the prodgious instrumental talent the Society coin bieet', and the perfect command which the Directors have over it, we shall give it precedence. In the vocal department the vagaries of the singers do frequently force the Directors Into an unpleasant position, but for wh ich, however, they have " 1 Y themselves to blame ; because one appeal to the Sub t:tribers em bodying a plain statement of f acts, would at once, iltitting the parties whose nonsensical affectation or whose ulsavointed vanity occasion the misc hief p ro p erly before t public, terminate the folly. What then have been the new instrumental compositions 'which th e Philharmonic Directors have this season produced? one Sinfonia, by Lachner, a most ineffective production, and two overtures, one by Mendleshon, the other by Mars. biter, th e f o rmer not equal to any o f his p revious Overtures, and the latter too contemptible to deserve a place in such a Concert. Of the o ld symphonies the season, it will be seen from the programme, has produced six of Beethoven's, two consecutive concerts, the fourth and fifth, passed over without. a symphony of Beethoven ; while the magnificent symphony in D, and the beautiful choral symphony which has never yet been done' jus tice to, the best performance of that great work which this country has yet witnessed was at one of the recent concerts of the Royal Academy of Music. Both these productions of the greatest master have been shelved, at least for another season. With the six of Beethoven, four of Mozart, three of Haydn, one of Poller, and one of Lochner, comprised the 16 sympho nies of the season. There has been seven piano-forte pe'rformances during the present season (and we only escaped the eighth, we presume, to find a place for the very trifling septetto of the Chevalier Neukomm) by Moschclles, Mrs. Anderson, Madame Dulcken, Potter, W. S. Bennett, and tao by Mr. Thalberg, the latter of which took place on Monday evening, and we trust that :a long time will elapse ere we are punished by such another embibition —it may be very wonderful—but to call it music, much less music for a classical concert, would be a profanation of the term. The performance of such trash at the Philharmonic Concerts evinces, on the part of the Directors who suffer it, either an incompetence for the office they fill, or a pandering to a most vicious taste, destructive of good music. Did the Directors ask Mr. Thalberg to play that beautiful quartett of Mendleshnu's in B minor, which elicited so much applause when played by W. S. Bennett at the quartett concerts? Of Mr. Melberg, all we shall say of his second perfor mance is, that like the man who claimed from King Charles some encouragement for the wonderful feat of standing on his bead on the top of the steeple of a church, the discriminating monarch replied, " let him have an exclusive patent for it." It is quite evident that the least effective of all solo instru ments in a public concert-room is the pianoforte; and although some of these performances were admirable in themselves, and the execution of which reflected the highest credit on the artists by whom they were performed, still we do consider there has been too great a preponderance given this instrument, to the evident exclusion of much more effective music. Can there be a question in the mind of any person at all acquainted with the beauties of quartett writing, that the stores which genius has supplied in this class of musical composition ought to be extensively made use of by the Directors of the Philharmonic Concert ? In this class of composition, what have the Directors produced during the eight concerts of the season? Two quartetts of Haydn, by Mori, Watts, Moralt, and Lind ley ; one quartett of Beethoven, by Blagrove, Gattie, Dan do, and Lucas. So that five concerts of the whole season have passed over without a quartett being heard in a musical society combining among its members the very elite of the profession, and among the subscribers whose contributions support the Institution, is enrolled the name of almost every distinguished amateur in the country. Whence does this arise ? If the error is to be corrected, the truth must be told. There are too many teachers of the pianoforte in the direction of the Philharmonic Concerts. A man may be well qualified to give ineteuetion on the pianoforte, who may never ' thelesa not possess the slightest pretensions to be placed in the distinguished position to direct the musical taste of England, and this latter qualification, and this alone should operate on the minds of the members when the election fee the Directors of such en important fieCiety takes place. If this qualifica tion were the only passport to the direction of the Philharmonic Societe, we should not have to lames t that five opportunities of improving the ?Jelly taste by displaying the equisite beau ties contained in the quit/leas of Mozart, Beethoven, and Hadyn, had been neglected, a teepee!' upon the direction of this Society, which we hope never agr e ie le be compelled to record. The three quartetts which were played during the beton, were amongst the most decidedly 1400060 d of the instrumen tal performances, and the perfect success which has attended the recent concerts peculiarly devoted to this peesisse of com position, ought forcibly to have reminded the Directors ef the Philharmonic Society that the public taste revelled in the en joyment of that most classical department of reerejettl composi tion when presented to them, as either of the two distinguished parties already alluded to have done, and all of whom are toises ponent parts of the Philharmonic orchestra. Next in order, we ask what has the Philharmonic season produced in overtures? Two tiCW ones by ielendelsinse and Marechner, of which we have already epeken ; five by Weber s three by Cherubini ; two by Beethoven ; two by Spobr ; one by Mozart; one by Winter; making, together, the sixteen overtures of the season. In this department not one composition of a British Artist has been produced during the whole season. Is it because none equal to the selection made has been written ? Has British talent produced no overture equal to " Le Prince de Hombourg," by Marsehner ; or the " 1 ainerlane," by Winter ; or the " Faniska," by Cherubini 1 Have the overtures of Goss, of Lucas, of MacFarren, of W. S. Bennett, of Durrett, of Balfe, no talent in them worthy of being fostered and en, couraged by a public performance of the Philharmonic Con certs? How is it possible that native compose: can flourish? Must they not devote much valuable time to the conepesition ; must they not then incur great expense in causing all the parts to be 'copied; and do they ever obtain re hearing at those concerts? If the answer iso they are produeteene of native composers, not worthy of being heard by so critical an aerlivice as the Philharmonic Society, and that reserver be a correct one, then should we deplore the fact; but we utterly repudiate it, and we feel quite assured that we are correct in the eeetetnent, that from the list of native composers which we have cited. WO could select overtures, which, when performed by the Philhar monic Band, would not only delight the audiesrce, but give great encouragement to the whole school of British Writers, thereby fulfilling two of the leading objects of the Institution, We regret very much to find that the suggestion we put forth, as to the performance of the beautiful overture to the Maid of Artois, was not in the programme of the conciseeinse concert. We feel satisfied that if the bisectors had attended to it, they would have rendered an essential eervice to the rapidly rising school of native talent-e-:. school rapidly rising without the aid of the very society—nay, positively with the absolute neglect of the Institution formed for It4l support. We trust this is the last season which we shall beep thus to speak. of the direction of the Philliumonic concerts ; let them awake from the lethargy which has seizes/ ppon them—let them show that they can devote a small porteee of the im menee subscriptions received to tire great object of proteeting native talent—let the Philharmonic Society at once offer three gold medals for the next seaecn ; the first value thirty guineas, for the best sinfonia ; the second, value twenty gusneas, for the beat instrumental quartett; the third, vAlue fifteen guinea; for the best overture—dee whole to be the eseespositione of Rritieh talent, If such a course he adopted, our netiee com posers would soon forget the chilling e, s eglect they have expe rienced, arid an impetus would be given tee En g lish writers which would operate most powerfully in favour a the whole musical profession. We now turn to the vocal selection, reod here, as we have before said, the vagaries of the singers do often occasion much mischief. The Directors of the Philharmonic Concerts may receive a very smart rebuke for permitting the aborressee ble trash which the singers ever and anon indulge in, and there is no way for them to eschpe . The Philharmonic subscribers do fully appreciate good vocal music when by chance they happen to hear it, for we must suppose it an accidental cie cuinstance as it so seldom occurs. As a preef of the justice of the rebuke to tbe direction of these concerts, and le eenport of the discrimivation of the Philhaemenie audience, we este whit h of the 32 vocal performances of the soon were honoured with an encore? Only two. " 0 Salutaris, hoetia," by Cherubini. " 0 Cara immagine Die Zauberflotte," by Mozart. While the productions by Marsehner, Mercadante, Bellini, bay, even (not withstanding the witchery of Malibran) Per eieni passed almost unnoticed. This feet is a most triumphant vindication of the musical taste of the Philharmonic audience, and shows in forcible lan guage that the errors of the vocal department are not attri but rest with the direction. butable to'the subscriherS , These coneeete are capable of vast improvement. The amount of subscripiions this year we believe to be beyond any former season, and they have been attended better than usual; but this is owing to the doubtful policy of allowing the tickets to be transferred ; we wish we could say it was owing to the great superiority of the musical selections of the season, and not to the adventitious circumstance we have alluded to. We hope again to have the pleasure of hearing the next perform :nee, and we trust that the observations we have felt it our duty to make will result in those improvements of the Society, which will make it an honour to the country, and constitute it in reality elle iMprzyger of the musical taste of England. --- The Hon. Mrs. George Barton, by her union with the Hon. George Chapple Norton, brotiter and heir presump tive to Lord Grantley, has three infant son, the eldest of whom, Cavendish Charles Conyers, is in his eighth ysa.r, The father of Mr. Norton and of Lord Grantley was the itou, Fletcher Norton, a Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland, who died in 1820. Mr. N. and his brothers and sisters wire ranted the precedency of children of a Baron in 1831, Lady grantleY is daughter of the venerable Sir W. Beechey. MORE GIRAFFES.—The proprietor of the Surrey Zoological Gardens, determined not to be beaten in the intro duction of novelties, on the first intimation of the probable arrivals of some Giraffes, applied to the Society in flip ge gent's-park to know if they would part w ith on e on any tor - res, but on their declining to do so, he instructed his agent (Mr. Warwick), who had proceeded from E n gland to procure some at all risks. He has done so, and yesterday letters weytt yer ceived stating he had shipped four, two 10 feet ; one 6 f & i4 and one, that at Cario, where it bad been twelve months, was called " La Belle Giraffe," being 13 feet high, the largest that had ever left the country. lie has also procured flue ostriches, eighteen Numidian cranes, one camel, five jerhc:.s, Ri o a number of other animals, all of which were shipped without the slightest accident. They left Alexandria on the 9th of Mai', and may shortly be expected. AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—A duel was 4tog)tt , all Thursday morning, the Igth ult., in Hemingford Meadow, be tween J. C. Daintree , Esq., a Magistrate of the County of Cambrike, and Chairman of the St, Ivp'l.. l'agr Law Union, and I', Undsell, Esq., one of the Guardians to th.e Vnina, in co nsequence of a dispute at a meeting on the previous 4 ay . gnal t ie i G g given, Capt. Daintree's pistol went off be fOornetlhiee h si a% raised it t ai V' and the ball entered the turf at the feet of his antagonist, and 4,4 itr, l. l indsell discharging his pistol in the air t he seconds interfered, a 44 the parties left the ground.--riedepend eat Press. [The place of rneetit t o• was an erningford Bounds, and it should have been inc cure in ltc sigl,l4 14eirig give? the parties fired together, stated that t tree. a . his kisit9l. t:to the air, and Mr. Dain- Mr. Litidsell ball entering Om - t4rf Allr yards of his own feet.— eitedirdor F Jiurch patronage was disposed of i n a ve ry The lona- a aitated questiMi 4f de, v icol rnanuer y tkae General Assem blya liduse cenaisting of of Scotland on Monday last , ! r i k 391 members, only 90 voted in Siipp?rt of the Fuopon of Dr. Thompson, " that patronage was a grievanaa, end ought to be abolished," THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY-JUNE 9, 1836. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HAMPTON RACES, YESTERDAY. The meeting commenced yesterday with all the success that could have been desired. The weather was fine, the attendance respect able, and the sport excellent. Amongst the fashionables were—the Duke of Beaufort, Lord Chesterfield, I ord Poltimore, Lord Mac donald, Hon. A. Villiers, Hon. Major Baring, Captains Bulkeley, Ricardo, Gardnor, Fairlie ; Messrs. Codrington; Payne, H. Aston, De Burgh, Worrall, &c. The following is a return of the sport : The Claremont Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added; three yrs old, 7st. ; four, Sst. 61b ; five, Sst. 121 b ; six, 9st. 21b ; aged, 9st. 51b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 2001. if demanded, &c. Heats once round anda dis. 15 Subs. Lord Conyngham's Heiress, 3 yrs...S. Day, jun a 1 1 Mr. W. Scott's br. h. Ruinous , 4 yrs 4 0 2 Mr. Sowerby's be. c. Shamrock , 3 yrs Colonel Peel's b. in. Rosalie, 5 yrs ° 0 dr Mr. J. Evans's gr. c. Waltz, 3 yrs 3 dis The first heat was won cleverly, the second very finely contested between all except Waltz, and the other won cleverly. The Waterloo Stakes of 5 sow. each, with 25 added ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner of any stake this year to carry alb. extra. Heats, once round and a dis. The winner to be sold for 150 sovs., &c. Weights as for the Claremont. Mr. King's b. c. Oberon, 3 yrs Wakefield 10 1 Mr. W. Edwards's Royal George , 3 y rs ...... 0 1 2 Mr. Sowerby's b. h. Mozart , 4 yrs .. 3 3 Mr. G. Dockery's ch. c. Leander , aged 2 dis Mr. Stubbs's ch. c. Edward, 4 yrs 0 dr 0 dr Mr. Fairlie's b. c. Tom Beasley , 3 y rs 0 dr Mr. Brown's b. h. Morpeth, 5 yrs Captain Gardnor's ch. c. Conrad, aged 0 dr The first and second heats won cleverly. The last was a very near thing between Oberon and Royal George, the former winning by a head only. He was claimed. Na betting worth quoting. The entries for to-day are numerous and likely to produce capital sport. GOODWOOD RACES. The Goodwood Stakes, of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., and only 5 if de clared on or before Tuesday next. Lord Westminster's Touchstone, 5 yrs, 9st. 121 b Mr. Theobald's Rockingham, 6 yrs, 9st. 121 b Mr. Etwall ns. Bran, 5 yrs, Oct. 41b Mr. Cooke's Sheet Anchor, brother to Hope, 4 yrs, 9st. 41b Mr. S. Herbert's Caruaby, 6 yrs, 9st. 21b Lord Chesterfield's Hornsea, 4 yrs, 9st. lib Mr. Forth's Famine, 5 yrs, Bst. 121 b Mr. Worrall ns. Diana, aged, Bst. 121 b Mr. Irby ns. Uncle Toby, 6 yrs, Bst. 121 b Mr. Coleman ns. Mayflower, 5 yrs, Bst. Olb sMr. Butler's b. g. by Longwaist, out of Sophy, 6 yrs, B st. 91 b Mr. J. Hunter ns. Ascot, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b Mr. Gapp ns. Bamfylde, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b Lord Exeter's Aurelius, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b Mr. Robertson's Lucifer, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b Mr. Watten's Ainderby, 4 stes, Bst. 61b. Mr. Higgins ns. Lucks All, 4 yrs, Set. Mb Mr. Forth's Knobstick, 4 yrs, Bst. 51b Mr. S. Stanley no. Paris, 5 yrs, Bst. 41b Mr. Dyke ns. Olympic, 5 yrs, fist, 41b Sir M. Wood's Amesbury, aged, Set. 31b Mr. Tattersall ns. Lansdowne, 5 yrs, Bst. llb Ms, Wagstaff ns. Languid, 5 yrs, Sst. llb Mr. Garner ns, Barney Bodkin, 6 yrs, Bst Mr. Wreford, Jun., us, Spume, yrs, Mkt Lord Villiers ns. Darius, fi yrs, Bst Lord Jersey's Silenus, 4 yrs, bst Cotterell ns. Valentissimo, 4 yrs, Bst Mr. Clarke tie', Outcast, 4 yrs, 81t Mr. Payne's Luminary, 4 yro, Bst Mr. S. Fox ns. Catherine, 4 yrs, Bst, I,Ara G, Bentinek ns. Pussy, 5 yrs, 7st. Mr. Gratsstelsts Os, Louisa, 7st. 121 b Mr. Hatton ns. Reveals, aged, Tat. 121 b Mr. Justice ns. Changeling, aged, 7st. 121 b Mr, Rush's Roadster, aged, 7st. 12th Lord ettrasihroke's b. g. Daniel, 4 yrs, ist. 121 b. Mr. J. S. Brig net Elizondo, 4 yrs, 7st. 121 b Mr. Deakins us. The (flame, 4 yrs, ist. 121 b Lord Lichfield's Elis, 3 yrs, 7 st. 121 b 1 Mr. Fox ns. Firman, aged, 7st. 101 b Mr. Johns rte. Airy, 3 yrs, 7st. 91b Mr. D. Radcliffe ns. Ifistinah, 5 yrs, ist. 71b Mr. W. Scott ns. Whimsical, 5 yrs, 7st. 71b Los(' Bathurst ns. Mus, 8 yrs, ist. 51b Mr. Brown's 11orpeth, 5 yrs, 7st. 31b Mr. Crommelin's litella, 5 yrs, 7st. 31b Mr. Biggs's Advocate, 4 yrs, 7st. 31b Mr. Robinson ns. Burlington, 4 yrs, ist. 31b Mr. Hussey sis, Tauntonian, 4 yrs, 7st. 31b Mr. Beales ns. Felix, 4 yrs, 7st. 31b mr, F. Goring us. Aristocrat, 4 yrs, ist. 31b Mr. J. Day's Venison, 3 yrs, 7st. 31b Colonel Peel's Jacob Faithful, 3 yrs, 7st. 31b Mr. Roloinson's br. e. Stockport, 4 yrs, 7st Mr. Batson's b. e. Taishteer, 3 yrs, Get. 131 b Nil. Davis ns. Ruinous, 4 yrs, 6st. 131 b Lord Uxbridge "us. 'fiber, 4 yrs, 6st. llb • Lord Tavistock's Oak Apple, 4 yrs, 6st. 121 b Mr. Kirby ns. Perrot, 4 yrs, 6st. 121 b Lui4 chesterfield's Alfred, 3 yrs, fist. 121 b Mr. Shelly ;Is, Lady Anne, 3 yrs, 6st. 121 b Lord Egremont's Eramelina colt, 3 yrs, fist. 121 b Sir L. P. Glyn's Recruit, 3 yrs, 6st. 121 b Disko of Richmond's Sepoy, 3 yrs, 6st. 101 b Mr. Lacy ns. Toss-up, 3 yrs, 6st. 71b Duke of Richmond's Havildar, 3 yrs, 6st. 71b Lord Egremont's Helga, 3 yrs, 6st. 71b Mr. Dawson's Fair Jane, 3 yrs, 6st. 71b Mr. W . , Kilwards's Sherry, 3 yrs, 6st. 41b • • Mr. F. Wood no, Brookland, 3 yrs, Est. 41b Sir G. Heathcote's Willesden, 3 yrs, Gst • Mr. Udney ns. Arbaces, 3 yrs, Est Duke Qf Beaufort's Esmeralda, 3 yrs, 6st Mr. Fairies's Tom Beasley, 3 yrs, fist Mr. Rush's br. f. Taghoni, 3 yrs, fist Mr, King's Oberon, 3 yrs, sst. 121 b Mr. istadler's Brother to Delight, 3 - yrs, sst. 121 b Mr. E. Glenn no. eh. c. by Tramp, 3 yrs, sst. 121 b Mr. Robson ns. Phorcus, 3 yrs, sst. 121 b Mr. Greatrex's f. by The Colonel, 3 yrs, sst. 121 b Mr. Green's Ticket, 3 yrs, sst. 121 b Mr. /slostyn us, Weazle, 3 yrs, sst. 31b Captain Moore's f. by Emilius, out of Flush, 3 yrs, sst. 31b Jr.j Barge ns. f. by Vanish, 8 yrs, sst. 31b • Mr. Rowlett ns. Khylan, 3 yrs, sst. 31b Mr. Winter ns, Circe, 3 yrs, sst. 31b Nominations for the Cup. Duke of Richmond's Sepoy, 3 yrs ; Lord Lichfield's Elis, 3 yrs ; Lord Uxbridge nit, Felix, 4 yrs ; Lord Exeter's Aurelius, 4 yrs ; Lord Jersey's Silenus, 4 yrs ; Lord Chesterfield's Hornsea, 4 yrs ; Byter's Luck's All, 4 yas ; Mr. W. Clancy ns. Mr. tut lei's b. g. Longwaist, out of Sophy, 6 yrs; Captain William son's Ainderley, 4 yrs ; Mr, Mostyn ns, Eleanor, 6 yrs; Mr. Et wall ns. Bran, 5 yrs ; Mr. Furth's Knobstick, 4 yrs ; Lord Jersey's Bait Middleton, 3 yrs ; Colonel Peel's Jacob Faithful, 3 yrs; Sir. Forth's Lossists, 5 yrs ; Sir G. Heathcote's Valentissimo, 4 yrs ; 111 r, D;wsun's V4if Jane, 3 yrs; Mr. Cottrel ns. Aristocrat, 4 yrs ; Lord A • •Fitselarenea ns. Paris, 5 yrs ; Mr. Cooke's Sheet Anchor, 4 yrs; Mr. Itobartonn'a Lucifer, 4 yrs; Marquis of Westminster's Touchstone, 4 yrs ; ale, linuldsworth's Furman, aged ; Duke of t l-laufert's Esmeralda, 3 yrs s Lord Chesterfield's Alfred, 3 yrs ; Mr. 800 ns. Linda, 5 yrs; Mr. Ewbank us. Diana, aged; Mr. Bother's Weazle, 3 yrs ; Mr. Theobald's Rockingham, 5 yrs ; Mr. Osbaldeston's b. c. by Tramp, out of Neva, 3 yrs ; Captain Ilyng Ds, Alias, 5 yrs ; Lord Egremont's u. by Chateau Margaux, out of ' Ismissoslinis, 3 yrs; Mr. J. Day's Venison, 3 yrs ; Major Hancock's Khylan, 3 yea; Sir J. Gerard us. Elizondo, 4 yrs; Lord Albe ' marle's Sherry, 3 yrs s Osbaldeston's Bamfylde, 4 yrs ; Mr. slut b's b. f. Taglioni, 3 yrs; Me, sis : Rupert, aged. AQUATICS. Mr. Robinson's wo-44efful performances, to scull to braves. a.,-,:l and back in eight hours from f_,oodon Bridge, is at presen the teia;p2, - attraction in the aquatic circles. The poly Bugg tion in the mind; of the most skilful watermen is how any gee :leman could ever undertaken a task so difficult. The ato :. 01 401, him is going a begging. Tho Eontleforp of 14 0 4 6 i 3 , 1cn0w ; 444 0 they do Mr. Robinson's prowces, do nut feel much or Others on the banks of the river would be a tew iii.irar t ails It is asserted that the 31st g io l c a l ci in t e o d ., to ed 7 e,, named by M. Ro i bin,ipo, cannot be . considered forfeited,alt„ it Vtio tpd not given the stiputate4 noticp, hut had merely annotmeeri tP his friends that he contemplated the start on that day. At hyeh4'4, the tie44.varters in these matters, their opinion was that the 44y wo 0400 to 4 1 4 intents and purposos; but that impress 4 .uh, op/Armed as it was by the opi, nion of the wholo 0f the gentlemen ;4,4 lind t! poStod their blunt" on the matter, It seamy; is erroneous. Mr. ftoblpion has announced his intention of going off on the iLith jolt, Cer tainly a mostjudicious choiaa, as tie will WWII the hPilffit of a very powerful spring tide both down and lip! Acl(led to this, he may start at about five in the morning, esuapp the wash pf the steamers down, and be there at flood. Should be fall In getting down in three hours and a half be has not a leg to stand on, but he may claim another day within the stipulated three. In coming up his work is cut out; upon a fair average lie will have about thirty-five miles to do, although he can cover the distance down in thirty, It is" glom!, pertain that if it he anything like calm he will have a turn on the Vith, THE 004.4 T MATCH BETWEEN TILE GENTLEMEN OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE.---This match between the Universities, which has been announced for the Nth inst i , is not likely to maw 41,; and from one of the strangest disputes thitt oould possibly occur. The gentlemen of Cambridge have got the Pelican, a boat built by L i pgen f of Cambridge, a wonderfully good thing, but of an immense lengths fiert4lhitr - 4A feet slid they ire desirous of rowing the distance announced, from We§t: minster to PaLopy,..-nothing for an eight. The Oxford gent demon want a mile and f‘. half only, tog short 4 di s ...stance to got m ore than way upon a cutter that poiguliti 414 vicirlirnon , Th e gentlemen, each of whom are nothing but crack oarsmen, & re de4O49N p i e matter, and in such hands as theirs it is to be hoped that the Mite Of the firPT Will not be deprived of their treat. If each party be conftdenp ii• rosily oan I.l# of littlP MI; o'okration whether it be ono rile arid a half or Oyo miles 44 1 a hof. Thp;e who get the start at a mile and a half have Bto 1 in their faxp i ty. They ought to win. OxFORD UNlVglisi4 Dq f q 11-.(7.5. --The boat races have this season been renewed with more 5140 ci;dinary zeal, On Tues. ,d,IV last there were no less than twelve eight oared cotteps, WO ruina,4, qn the river, contending for the mastery. They were arranged inthe ic,lios4r,g order : —l. Christ Church. 2. Exeter, 3. Jesus. 4. Brasennose. b. fialliql ' . 0. Q r j e l, 7. Christ Church, second crew. 8 . Corpus. 9. Jesus, second FrOW. i 4... Arßennose, second crew. 11. St. John's. 12. Univer sity. n thi, 7 t , 4ce the Jesus' crew beat the Exeter, and the Balliol the Brasennose! if 1.":'4'4 folnld inconvenient for so Many boats to be in the race, the second gpw§, tt i grfqpp L of o.4rNt pipjrab r Jesus, and Brasennose, are withdrawn. The race test evening' was tilizw;4l4 l tq bp a my interOtitl; OOP i only the first six named in the list were to start. The colours of the different crews were yesterday hoisted in the following order, viz.:-1. Christ Church. 2. Jesus. 3. Exeter. 4. lialliol. 5. Oriel. For the information of our readers at a 41 .4 1 Mc5, ii . tita, k nc.4e - es , t9i tR, q•aig tlir t t the lifjP V 4 1 :- ranged in tll6 order iii 4. Came in ' the 'pre - a -ling e t anfn,,r, a boat's length being allowed ll'Om bdaCtoldal. 'll4 distance they have to row is from Iffiey to the large boat moored op posite Christ Church meadow, about a mile in length- a i o - i i , art ,''' thc 4,ver wniqi l - ' 1 1 0 4 1 '" ( tog V l ' 4 C7PW 511 4" • contending 'boat I niU'a ' „irain oh tii l eir - eo . : : iipeti ois t le'distanee, a nd 'strike' the stem Or their Voiit against the stern of the other, beYor•i iliey cvi . take the P l recc4en,ce ; iind'ihis is always flaileA rhe di r river, 611 S e ee a n P14 4 1 ' f i t 4 :r starting Y le" lit% P 4l evening, is 1 t i'Vlir'9oP2gthgel Oric , l caught and struck the e ßalliol, which withdrawing from the line, the Oriel went on rapidly and beat the Exeter.— Oxford Journal of Saturday. PIGEON SHOOTING AT GRAVESEND. he great long-announced match for a Silver Cup and Cover, given by subscription to be shot for at Gra v esend , on Monday,' was the most complete failure ever was remembered. The steamers, at least those in the morning, took down the crack men of London ; and, if there was a sign of consterna tion., a symptom of the " white feather," it was when the " elite" of Gravesend discovered that they had got down the very flower of the country. The crack man of Gravesend (of whom it was said he had brought a porter to carry away the Cup) " cut it." The others " followed suit ;" and out of the thirty who were considered free at fifteen shillings each, there were only six who " showed head." What was to be done ; one thing appeared as clear as the sun at noon-day, that Ale " Gravesenders " were ashamed to shoot while the Londoners were present. The pigeons of Clayard's were there, so were the advocates of fair play ; but the list was not full, although ever body in the vicinity had promised to enter. Finding that there was no chance of shooting for a cup; one of the " un approved" accepted the challenge of the gentleman who had brought " a bag for the Cup." It was at six birds each, twenty-one yards .rise. The Gravesend man went in " aw fully." He killed one bird. The other would not " show off," and contented himself with missing his second and fifth." Gravesend was completely revolutionised, and so weak the " natives," that only ten dined, the _otb- . were " bide their diminished heads." -.els were gl a d to The Turf, American Turf Register a n d Sporting Aericn Magazine T uorff ri March last gives a list of 79 stallions in different parts of the United States, among which are the fol lowing imported from this country :—Apparition, Autocrat, Barofoot, Chateau Margaux, Consol, Emancipation, Hedge ford, Luzborough, Lapdog, Margrave, Merman, Rowton, Sar pedon, St, Giles, Shakspeare, Tranbv, and Young Truffle. The Roes Challenge—The pending wager of 100 guineas when won (of which there is no doubt) will be given towards building the Roshercon Lying-in-Hospital. The Ladies who are the subjects of competition do not know it, nor will they until the judges have decided,— Wexford Paper. The bachelors of Portarlington have challenged New Ross and Newry together for a fairer beauty than their little town affords,--Aiimerick Paper, Some gentlemen of Dulverton and vicinity have it in con templation to establish a small pack of hounds for hunting the red doer in that neighbourhood we trust that this will lead to the re-establishment of stag hunting in the west of England, the loss of which was so much regretted by all true sportsmen. —Western Times. WESTMINSTER MEETING. A numerous and highly respectable meetinc , of the people of Westminster, was held last night at the British Coffee-house, Cockspur-street. Otway Cave, Esq., M.P., was unanimously called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the question for the consideration of this meeting was not so much whether justice should be done to Ireland, as whether they would suffer an irre sponsible body in the House of Lords to over-rule and set at nought the best efforts of a liberal Government for ame liorating the condition of all classes of the people. Two such bodies as an irresponsible 'House of Peers, and a re sponsible- House of Commons, could- not go on harmoniously or usefully together.—(Hear, hear.) Was this meeting prepared to maintain a standing army in Ireland, for the purpose of supporting a Church without a congregation —( Hear, hear.) It was now the duty of every honest man to give a solemn warning to the House of Lords— (Hear, hear) —and if, as he did not believe, the House of Commons could feel disposed to surrender their rights and privileges, and thus to frustrate the best interests of the people, he was satisfied that the people would not submit to so base an acquiescence.—(Cheers.) Those cheers in duced him to feel that the people said in effect, " We will have justice whether the Lords will or not, or whether in the struggle their order was to be discontinued." • JOSEWI HUME, Esq., M.P., said it had now become ne cessary for the people of England to consider well what was to be done with an irresponsible body of men like the Peers, who seemed determined on stopping all necessary Reforms in England and Ireland, and clogging the wheels of good Government.—(Hear, hear.) He was anxious to preserve the just privileges of the Peers, their titles, their fortunes, every privilege which they enjoyed ; but only so long as they did not impede the march of a Liberal Government, and render nugatory the best intentions of the Representa tives of the people for their welfare and tranquillity.— (Cheers.) He was, however, under all circumstances, for maintainin g the ground which they had made rather than risk its safety by an endeavour to obtain more. He wished, as a R alical Reformer, to see the reform of all abuses in Church and State effected as speedily as possible, but lie saw difliculties in the way ; and if the people would only be honest to themselves—if they would keep a watchful eye upon the elections—and if as honest men they would only send honest Representatives to Parliament, all violence, and all confusion would be unnecessary.—(Hear, hear.) He Lprecated any collision between the two Houses, but if it must come, the people and their Representatives had had sufficient prudence and wisdom not to force it on.— (Bravo.) The time had come when men should not be al calv.mouthed—when they should speak out. W. WARD, Esq., M.P., for St. Albans, then came for wards to second the resolution, and was received with loud cheers. He stated that he concurred in almost every word which had fallen from his lion. Friend (Mr. Hume). The Rev. Dr. WADE strongly insisted on making the Lords responsible. Mr. Tulk, M.P., Dr. Bowring, and Messrs. Cranford, Pouncey, Prout, and Hovendon, proposed the remaining resolutions, which all went, in very strong language, to de precate treating Ireland in a manner which neither England nor Scotland would tolerate. A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman. The petition to the house of Commons, founded on the resolutions just agreed to was adopted ; Ar i d the, meeting separated about eleven o'clock, BOROUQU QV VINSABUI4Y. iegtOrday (Wednesday) a very numerous and respect :thin m ooting of the electors of this borough, was held at the White Conduit-house, to petition the House of Com mons in favour of Municipal Corporations for Ireland ; Kennedy, Esq., late M.P. for Tiverton, in the chair. Mr. Iturr having proposed, and Mr. min' having seconded the resolutions, they were put from the 614,T:A unanimously carried. Mr, 0 , GONNCLI, pikwe kovard, amidst the most ei 001441 P. *Prim, lie had heard Lord Lyndhurst— ((ireo. hoettng)—say that the Irish were aliens in language, slier in bleed, aliens in religion, and aliens in afktion, Some Irishmen aro said to have a tail ; but the House of Lords must be fools to have such a head as Lord Lynd hurst. Would Wellington or Nelson say we were aliens in a0'ea1011? When the meteor flag of England was flying, VV4Ii hut Pat always at the gun amid blood and slaughter? He Wail happy to tell them that Government had deter mined to kick out every clause the Lords had introduced into the Bill--out they were all to go, stock and lock, tag, mg And hohhil,—(l-Anghter) The English will trot shiros, and the Irish will stand by them till tha death. Erin will cry, " Up with liberty," and " Down wiih slat a!°y ;" and frmil Conaetnara to the Hill of Howth will ho heard the shout of liberty for England, liberty five Soot.: land, and liberty for Ireland. The lion, MvvAile§speocli wag cheered cluing Its delivery, and at its pondlioion. • T, DoNeostrE, M.P., concurred in all that the Hon, Member, Counsel for Ireland, had said. Mr, ld. °RATTAN, M.P., returned thanks for the vote just passed, He had just come from the Middlesex county meeting, where he had protested against the Bill as altered by the Lords. Toryism is come to such an extent, that all elates are united against it. We never will—we never onirbt—wo never can be quiet, till justice is obtained for t a lr: (ll ki ie n te : r . priect T (iiti l o ie llnn t : l rrl e ,tti.i i : ::n u e se wh o e f n c j o i m ls m tic o e us n:lu v sbLd l oti v Q 4(l, Mr, Mtliwim i then tnnved a vote of' thanks to the Chair tnan, which was se c onded by Mr, WHIPPLE, and the meeting separated, On Monday morning, about haif-pastsix o'clock, as Mr, William Willi:4ns, of No. 232, Tottenham-court-road, Oilman, was passing along the towing path of the Regent's canal in the Chalk Farm fields, between the Ilampstead-road and Southampton bridges, he was informed by a bargeman na vigating his craft that the swell in the wake of the vessel had bildY Of 4 1114 n, which, aftor rolling over in the " 4 - -; the water two or three times, had again sunk. Mr. Witlian - ss, with a most commendable spirit of humanity, directly th rew o ff his c l o thing and plunged into th,,, water at the sp o t w h ere th e b o dy h a d di sc eared lAft?Viet.diving to the b o tt om twice sucCencle4 in pp givPiq '4me woollen iknd Ah trigging the hulk attached to it to the s u rface, i t Was to be the body of Z man who had appa rently heen in the water hut a filw minute*, At considerable ' 6 :altith was still poreoptilde about the region of heart, Mr. clireqly rap for assistance and procured the aid of police cons able Thomas Overington, No. 72 S, who con veyed the body to the Oxford Arms public-house in the Hampstead-road, where the usual means to prodkiee resus enatioll were mployed and pc:overoi in for aome time, but s , ' /ithgtit success . 'rho hn4y now lies to be owned. Th ' 4e P9SP(-1 W 44 dressed in a gent lem a n ly s t y le. I.l Ls coat was rids:sl ug , an d I t t likely that 1! ,Lau thrown it o ff b e fore he jumped !lito the canal, and some passer - by had o* r, it, He :ad on when taken out of the wiiteV 4 Nney pattern velvet u:aistcoat, ker!eynn•iil trAppi tpwsers, two under flannel ty.4, 4 noWlinen one; IV also had on a now pair of elftna.on'h'dot's i'uperior make. hiss neckerchief, which G. 1.,. No. 1,". he haul tied over his head and under his chin in (hp 2411 p l: w Arkl4iß as tho ,jaws of a dead per m 111 , c1 liAtill up. Ua tho towing-path, at a short distance from Where the 'hotly was found, a new hat, maker's name ".. G. 13 yers, No. a, Pali-mall," on the end of a hedgestake driven t 4 the ground, and in it Nytts apa s iy of trows.er,straps and 1 pair 9.f. nl nr Aid glo,yoi,. The ontokunate individual appears co'ioYC i,oca about is years of age. An ingdest will be held on the body. TO THE DISSENTERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. You are the majority in numbers, in the power which wealth gives, and in intelligence. Why then are you still denied justice ? Why are you still suffering under un equal laws ? • Why are you obliged to sustain an enormous Sectarian Hierarchy ? Why are you still obliged to contribute mil lions annually to a Sectarian Priesthood? Because you, the laity, do not take your affairs into your own hands. Instead of using and guiding the talent of your Ministers, you are led by them ; they sadly need guiding in all mat ters of policy and of business ; out of the pulpit they are mere children. Their knowledge is verbal and doctrinal, and they are wholly unfit to be authoritative guides to civil and religious liberty and equal political rights ; they can expound the Scriptures and show the principles, but they are unfit to lead you to battle for them. As to the power of wealth, this is your's. For all po. pular purposes the same quantity of wealth in the hands of many is more influential than in the bands of a few, It is then quadrupled in power. It is generally suro— ; most powerful when colleetod ,-used to be 'flosses, and into few bands, but it is not ing .or popular objects. It is in inereas ,.vn production, and for that purpose only, that ag gregation increases its power ; for social and political pur poses, the possession of enough to obtain information, and give its possession the small quantity of time necessary for co-operation, is all that is needed ; unity of mind is popular strength ; this conviction is generally spreading, for know ledge is spreading, and knowledge produces this unity. The supporters of the Law Church arc the Lords and the Aristocrats, the farmers dependent upon the owners of the soil, and clodpoles dependent upon them, if supporters these latter can be called. It should always be borne in mind that 'at least one half of those who pass for Churchmen, and who must be admitted to possess greater intelligence than the farmers and their labourers, are not supporters, but merely conformers, from position, place, or connexion. Another large portion are composed of those who, being indifferent as to faith, study appearance, and therefore join those who are generally considered the respectables. THE LORDS—I purposely avoid calling them the Nobi lity, for the descendants of the old Nobility have been swamped by the creations of George the Third—so far as mere antiquity is a constituent of Nobility, the mass of the titled men of this country are but of yesterday—the Lords arc supporters of the Church, because they are most of them tithe-holders, and patrons of livings, and were se lected for Lords, because of their thick-and-thin advocacy and support of Torkwars against American and French independence. They are supporters of the Law Church, because that Church furnishes provision for the younger children and other connections of the Aristocracy. The Church is their warren, an aristocratic preserve, by up holding which a tenth of the produce is drawn from the industrious for the support of lordlings and other offshoots, and those accommodating chaplains and tutors, who by pliancy and prudent marriages qualify themselves to teach humility to those over whom, but not by whom, they are appointed to preside, and to whom, nominated by the pious Eldon, they have generally been appointed 'to expound the toenalties of the game and other oppressive laws, in con nection with the terrors of their creed. These classes, that is the Lords, the Squirearchy, and in districts where commerce and newspapers have not yet brought their intellects into action, the farmers and their dependents, are the principal supporters' of this holy Daughter of a Mother, whom they have themselves been the loudest to call by a name which their canons visit with penance in a white sheet. In small towns and villages the parson, the lawyer, and the doctor, usually lead the society of the place. The one has a perennial retainer in favour of things as they are. His tithes and his dues, so called, are re newing fees, in favour of standing still. The lawyer, for the sake of the parchments, courts the Squirearchy, and for the sake of the fees, seeks the patronage of the Magistrates, who have hitherto, to the disgrace of the Go vernment of this country, been selected from those who conform to the Established sect ; and the Doctor seeks to physic all " respectables." The whole of this union of in terested and crooked policy is produced by the unholy al liance of Church and State, which means the setting of one sect upon the shoulders of all the rest, by which the one grows unhealthily fat, torpid, and oppressive, and tl, e others are depressed by the weight which cupidity, not the Gospel, has imposed upon them. The whole is an union of worldly interest—not of_religicus principle. . . If you need general evidence of the sul,eriority of Dis senters, and of the non-interference r,olicy for which we contend, look at the rise of town s like Manchester, and the decay of cities like Chestcir—see the activity, intelli gence, energy, public spirit, and progression of the inha bitants of the one—and the aristocratic coldness, heavy and priestlike dulness, and decay of the other. In this we have an illustration of the value of perfect freedom, and the necessarily injurious effects of restrictive laws. The con trast brings the effect into strong light—the thriving supe riority of the inhabitant of the free town over the restrained city is the consequence of the principle, and not primarily of the men. Their differenee,% are produced by the differ ence in the circumstmwo* under which they exist, but the value of thOlit lkv4oad and general principles for which you contOtali herein strongly shown, and should be a powerful indnooment to you to be active and faithful to yourselves, and those who are to MAO after you, in contending for that fullness of freedom which is your's and their due. Had our father's and urandfathers been so to us, should we now have to pay 500,000,000/. of debt, the consequences of their wars against liberty and equal laws ? These wars, bear in mind, wore inflicted . upon humanity by the Church and State sect--,for the landed qualification required for Mem hers of rarliament, the corrupt and imperfect system of re presentation which practically made the House of Commons tho nominees of the Lords, the Test and Corporation Acts, and the wicked partiality of the Government in appointing the judges of the land, and the magistracy fat% 411 the king dom from the dominant sect, and in a utoat degree from the d parsons of that sect, have secure for the L aw Ch urc h t h e merit of wasting those rellaM4i of treasure and of human beings, sacrificed tq the great Moloch of evil priestcraft ; for it is IvAttlla , fair to include kingcraft under this censure, ilk tt 4 4 s uewei , been tried, freed from the trammels and in *wee of priestcraft. The established Priests have always had the training and educating of the Dings in their boyhood ; and, with the ex neptinn of the House of Brunswick, a pretty lot of rotten oranges they have reared. You have not been true to yourselves ; you have num• hers, strength, wealth, activity, and influence ; you have a Society formed for the protection of the civil rights of Dissenters ; ,yQn have a legal Secretary of talent, tact, and elockuw ~ ,p. ; By the union of the three he has obtained prAtit(A swiety ; but what have you obtained as Dis se-4ltq§ 'ilese ought to have given, and had the laity amongst you combined and acted for yourselves, would long since have given you relief from all your disabilities ; but you have left the matter in the hands of your ministers, who, with a very few exceptions, are of all men the least fitted to gain your just objects. Neither their position, their worldly substance, business experience, or general political knowledge, activity or aptitude, fit them for any continuous energetic efforts, beyond speaking and exhortation. By the energy of a few Irishmen, Catholic Emancipation was achieved for that class of Dissenters. The Catholic Association, compared with your Association, was a crea tion of yesterday ; yet by exertion, by energy, and union, and iteration, it won the object for which it was called into being, and the union which commenced by three or four men, who assembled for the first tune in Dublin under laws which rendered their Meting next to treason, won for themselves and tiwir prom:died brethren in a few years the great ob ject of their Association. The Catholic Association had its origin in 1823—Catholic Emancipation was passed in 1829—and it was mainly by their efforts that you carried the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828. You will all rereember the severe penal laws against this Association—its frequent suppression —and the persecution of its members ; and you must all know and feel that they wrested their rights, so far as tlAkri have yet obtained them, from the Government of the day, Pear always obta s ma more from power than justice wins. Sir Robert Wei and ON DO - 4e of Wellingt,;on did not concede Catholic , Eman cipation becail§e of their love of justice ,• hot because they feared union and energy of the Catholics, and the strength which flowed from that union. 4% aristocratic spirit is the plague spirit of English so ciety ; your Ministers are troubled with it. I say they are trouhled with it, because they are generally the getters-up and leaders of your annual meetings, and it is not too much to infer that what is there enacted is by them previously thought upon and arranged. I will give you two re ent instances of this spirit bowing them down to Ow.- -uity, and showing that the aristocratic f ee li ng i t marring your efforts—the i n st ance - _ , s which assists in two last annual assemblies O..., are connected with your the civil rights of 11 '' s a Society for the protection of Your issenters. secretary, or your Leaders, for whether they di rect the Secretary, or the Secretary directs them, seems extremely doubtful, seek Lords—men who are identified with Chumla and State—TO PRESIDE OVER YOU, When you A , "Emmix Tu SANCTIFY THE PRINCIPLES OF CIVIL AND AEI49IOUS LIBERTY AND EQUAL LAWS, and to consolidate the power to establish those principles in Great Britain. ,Let us look at the last two meetings. Last year, when you assembled, a highly member o f y our b o d y, M r. J o h n Child s , was in the Ipswic h re spect abl i e felon s ' gao l f or not vo l untar il y support i ng t h e dominan c e o sect front whose tenets he conscientiously dissented, and whose o p uress i on h e , as consc i ent i ou sly and boldly resisted . •On that occasion Lord Brougham was brought down to head a meeting of a Society opposed to that Church of which h e is a member, to whose hierarchy he yielded the immense patronage which, as Lord Chancellor, for a tine. belonged to him—whose administrasion•while in power had done little to relieve the Dissenters—who had Idways talked largely of what ought to be, but had when, in power done little to realize it-rand whose incontinence of words forth tunately extinguished himself, by proclaiming he should its less. This Lord, who was great as a commoner, but as a Lord, was sought out, and brought out to heAd yout meeting, the only advantage of whose preser,o was to obscure by hi s p o liti ca l c h P.raoter the peculir..f ob cote of the Society. John Chks was in prison, 'and serv ed as text for the day ; Few things were taid that were good, and led, as most 'generous sentiments do, when Englishmen, are assembled., to cheers ; but nothing was done. Tao man's healoli failed--his friends became alarmed for hiskce...- they arranged with the Eccl es i as ti ca l C ourt, that I.o : ; ic h his firinneris would not yield —a talk was had abort it in th e : c firm of Commons—he was as m uc h a b use ?: b y one party As support e d by the other ; th e Whig Arar:ister sa id a f es words, promising relief from Church-I-AU:4, which he new er intendqd to grant, and there the mr.tter ended. That the a iiiinister did not intend relief wl.ten he spoke csi• it, the measure he brought in evidene,ed-:t merely went to shif t ':iolP!inant sect still mo re fi rm l y the saddle, and to fasten the on our shoulders. This year's annive:,,, ary was worse an d worse ; anotLet Lord was invite-:, to preside over your meeting ; two or three of you.: minister s a dd ress you , an d one of them '00d..;- ing over with the " odium theologicum" (they are children out of the pulpit) could not refrain, in a meeting to sus tain your civil rights, from dealing out religious dr.mnation upon those whom the unthinking and choleric. man, charged with trampling on his ,Lord —that is, with not thinking as he thought ; and then, to crown the whole, your chair man, Lord „Ebrington, whose fame is principally built upon his having stepped in on two critical occasions to sustain the Whigs against the Court and the Tories.—he, your chairman, selected—if those who selected him had the °lsm ject and purposes of your Society at heart —to give effect t o the principles upon which you were associating, and th e purposes for which you were then assembled-4e stood fr.reth to tell you he was not with you in sentiment. You gwee to him, I beg pardon, your leaders—your simple ministers-- gave to him, whom they must have known not to be friendly' to the dissolution of the unholy union, official pcnition :et a meeting seeking that end ; a n d h e manfully :And tells them, as th eir chairman, that he is opposed to their object : the honesty was his, the simplicity was theirs. Is it for such purposes you subscribe, and is it by means such as these you can hope to succeed ? This is the wisOmtn of your ministers when out of the pulpit. It is one thing to expound the principle, but it requires differently co,astituted men and minds to c a rr y it i n t o e ff ect. N o great wisdom i s needed by any men who have the New Testa..oent before them, to demonstrate the right of all men to and reli gious - liberty and equal laws ; but it requires 'general know ledge of men and of things to work out our soc i a l em a n ii.. pation, and rescue our liberties from the powerful :tr.d the interested. Now, suppose the Catholic Association brad cho-,er. an Orange Lord as their chairman, would no't you have sus pected the leaders of treachery ? And if they has done so habitually, would they have emancipat'ed themselve s ? Sup pose a meeting of the dominant sec.., assembled to consider how they could best and most securely fasten themselves upon your pockets, and moat effectually restrain your reli gious liberty and civil rights , and that thy bad placed in the chair a leading Disaevi.e r , a man interested both by his. position and profession ;:n defeating their objects, would not you accuse them of stupidity, or suspect them of cupidity Do you ever fl Churchmen guilty of *ll suicidal conduct as this? I :et such is your want of clearness of perception, or else s:dch is the want of honesty amongst your leaders, and ;;our apathy as a body, that these things are done by an.d amongst you,without apparently anyspecial wonderment. You must determine to do more than subscribe your money, and then leave the whole matter in the hands of your Ministers. You must apply it, and. work out your own worldly deliverance. Your Ministers become by pro fessional habit mere talkers, who, in their practice of ex pounding, lose their capacity for acting. They begin as local preachers in the country, under...circumstances which forms in tt-..ein the habit ,of considering themselves inferior to the I)eneficed Bonifaces of the establishment ; this in (lutes shrinking ; then the habit grows with them, and they are generally ivanting in the boldness of mind an d purpose essential to win for you those equal rights Of whi c h you are so unjustly deprived. ZENAS. SMALL AND AT"2WOOD. Small shall the claims of SrP.all and Attwood be, When Small and Attwoa cease to disagree ; Small be the residue—fea 1 very small.. If there shall be a re.;taue at all : When lawyer's bil l ,s and Counsel's fees are paid, For all they hay 4 , and all they have not said, Small shall be smaller still, and Attwood small, If Small or Attwood shall be left at all. But some. surmise that Attwood grows, they guess, " &TWA by degrees, and beautifully less." The Earl of Mansfield gave an elegant dinner on Monday evening, at Langham House, to their Excellencies the Ambassadors from France and Russia, the Duke of Wel lington, Viscount and Viscountess Burghersb, Lord and Lady Stuart de Rotbsay, Lord Rokeby, Lord and Lady Mahon, Lady Caroline Stanhope, Earl of Aberdeen, and Lord Fitz gerald de Vesey. The saloon and principal apartments were decorated with shrubs and flowers, brought from the flue con servatory at Caen Wood, Hampstead, where a series of bril liant fetes to the fashionable world will be given, when the season is further advanced. CHASTITY SOCIETY.—Every body has heard of Temperance Societies, and of the good which they have ac c,om rlished. On dit in London—that certain of the Tory Aristocracy, aware of this, and anxious, by establishments of a similar nature to repress every branch of immorality, especially those more peculiar to the higher walks of life, have deter mined to establish Chastity Societies, from which results equally favourable may be anticipated. The report is, feat the Duke of Cumberland, with that earnest zeal for the spread of virtue and morality which he has displayed throug}. a whole long life of good works, has kindly intimated a wish to be the first President of the New Society. The Duke of Welling ton and Lord Lyndhurst who have been almost as eminent for their virtue in their time as his Royal Highness of Cumber land, are likely, we understand, to be unanimously elected. Vice-Presidents. We are also credibly informed, that the greater part of the Tory Peers purpose enrolling their names as supporters of the Society. This is as it should be. It gives a direct contradiction to all those libellers who so roundly and so basely assert that the Peerage is a hotbed of vice and immorality. As soon as ever the Association is consolidated, th e Duke of Wellington is to move an address to his Majesty,. praying for a thorough sifting of the pension list that th e names of all improper characters may be expunged. Lard Lyndhurst, it is supposed, will ask for a Committee to investi gate the grounds on which peerages were granted during th, e short Peel administration.—Liverpool Chronicle. COURT OF ALDERMEN.—A Court was held. on Tuesday for the dispatch of business. The inquest of St. ",ride's made a presentment relative to the desecration of the S abbath, by the exposure and sale of articles in the neighbow hood of Farringdon Market every Sunday morning, to the great an.- noyanee of the inhabitants. After a long conversation, ord.ers were given for the immediate adoption of measures for the abatement of the nuisance. The inquest of Coleman -street Ward handed in a presentment, containing the nar.tes, and addresses of twelve inhabitants of the Ward, Woo ha.d been detected in the use of false weights. An ankaated discussion ensued; the result of which was, that on de e motion of Alder man Venables, the list was referred to th. e City Solicitor, with directions to inquire whether it wouldl - J e advisable to prosecute all or any of the offenders. The Court then adjourned. HAND-LOOM WEAVRP.s.—Twenty-one thousr Av a, one hundred and twenty-six poor weavers have recently peti tioned the House to rrgulate their wages. FACTOP.IES Ii_EGULATION ACT.—For the amend ment of this 13 ; .n, 41 petitions, with 20,902 signatures, had been present - ea up to May 6th. EXPLOSION OF A POWDER M1L'.,..--A few days ago, the inhabitants of Waltham Abbey . , Essex, were thrown. into a State of the greatest consteroation and alarm by the breaklug of windows, &c., which. immediately followed a loud report similar to that produced by the firing of a large piece of ordnance. It was soon afterwards rumoured that several, per sons had been killed tot the explosion of one of the Govern ment powder mills ateining the town, but happily the. rumour proved ineurreet. It. appears that the workmen on ]'caving the mill at, the usual hour for dinner, secured properly as they imagined the machinery, which, however, soon after their de-. parture was by the force of the water propelled with its wontec force, and from the frictton of the stones by which the gnu. powder is ground., t . he whole of the combustible materi a l s ignited. and 1 )7, the explosion the roof of the building was blown Mt', th e - air. It is a providential circumstance drat no lives were sacrificed by the accident. BELGIC HORSES.—The horses in BruP.sels are rather a handsome race; they are well-formed, but rather abdominous. A high arched c necykesist_aepromi:aent featr.re in. ant than in Flanders, as their general appearance,bwhi _h gi ves them an air of great no. I should think they eliev r g e o e e d s, in w: B ad rah bility. far as ex of Brabant. rmabyawnta.lkslinnervlearndsearws,awnbiillt equally available' in regard of work. I cannot but, . • that this vtluable animal is better trttated b howeNe' , They external r seeming a finer e by the red l e,mo i r ng o s vc tl r T N n vo b rk y e t d hc h p o e r o se pl i e n all parts of Brabant, more especially in Brussels, you meet at every step broken down, starved jades, under-fed and over worked, only fit for a night cab in London, or the next trail sition from that wretched condition, the kn k ' tte er slam lii this respect there is an evident difference in the manners and. habits of the two people.—A Saunter in Belgium. PLOUGHING BY STEAM.—Some experim en ts ';were recently tried near Bolton with a new and very powerful. steam plough, constructed by Mr. Heathcoate, M.P. for Tiverton. About six acres of raw moss were turned up in a few hours, and turned up in the most extraordinary style, soe4s eighteen inches in breadth and nine inches in thickness bei'ag cut from the furrow, and completely reversed in position, the upper surface of the sod being placed exactly where th% lower surface had been before.